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Living With Ocd

How to Stop Worrying About Worrying

Therese Borchard | Posted 04.18.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stress, Living With OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd Treatment, OCD Symptoms, Ocd, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News
Therese Borchard

Too many "what if's" and your orbital cortex as shown will light up in beautiful neon colors, like the walls of my daughter's bedroom. However, with repeated cognitive-behavioral exercises, you can cool it down and return your PET scan to the boring black and white.

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Losing It

Leda Natkin Nelis | Posted 01.16.2013 | Parents
Read More: Aspergers Syndrome, Parenting, Special Needs Children, Living With OCD, Breakdown, Tantrum, Parenting Special Needs Children, Parents-Moms, Stress, Temper, Parents News
Leda Natkin Nelis

My daughter was surfing the Internet and asked me why Britney Spears shaved her head a few years back. "She was having a nervous breakdown," I explained. My daughter looked at me thoughtfully. "Isn't that what you have sometimes?" she asked. GULP.

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Tragedy Underscores The Dangers Of Elderly Hoarding

Posted 10.09.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Getting Help for Hoarding, Dean Verboven, Hoarding, Randy Frost, Ocd, Compulsive Hoarding, Hoarders, Health Post50, Pack-Rats, Barbara Verboven, Living With OCD, Video, Fifty News

A tragic fire earlier this week in Greenwich, Conn. that killed a 42-year-old-man and left his 69-year-old mother in critical condition in a burn unit...

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Is Your Mom Or Dad A Hoarder?

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.27.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Fifty News, Pack-Rats, Hoarding, Getting Help for Hoarding, Randy Frost, Ocd, Compulsive Hoarding, Hoarders, Living With OCD, Slidepollajax, Baby Boomers, Health Post50, Fifty News
Ann Brenoff

A 50-year-old businesswoman recently walked into her 83-year-old father's apartment and nearly passed out from what greeted her: stacks and stacks of papers, magazines, books -- "literally from the floor to the ceiling."

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Living With OCD

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, Living With OCD, Video, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

OCD can be a devastating disease. Patients have intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts and severe anxiety centered around the need to perform repetitive rituals.

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